trade unions

[Cheesy]

Why I will be voting in favour of Strike action and will be withdrawing my labour

About 12 years ago I took a drop of wages of over £150 per month to leave the private sector, working shifts in a factory, to enter the Civil Service.
The reasons for this were worklife balance, promotion prospects and pension.
The job i am in now, having been promoted about 6 years ago, means that i have to work early mornings (often leaving home before 5am), late nights (often arriving home after 2am) and weekends, though as a + side, I can take this time during the week when most will be tied to their desk. There has now been a promotion ban for well over a year, and now the government are expecting me to not only make do with a wage freeze (or should i say wage cut with inflation starting to rise), but are now wanting me to pay an exxtra £52.50 per month, work an extra 7 years and get £44,000+ less of a pension (depending on how long I live).
This is not the contract I signed up for, and if the government or any employer wishes to ammend the terms and conditions of employment, then they MUST enter into real and open negotiations, not with pre-conditions.

From each by their means, to each by their needs.

Genuine question here... what are you having to do differently to all those employed in the private sector over the last few years?

 

[Lucky13]

Why I will be voting in favour of Strike action and will be withdrawing my labour

About 12 years ago I took a drop of wages of over £150 per month to leave the private sector, working shifts in a factory, to enter the Civil Service.
The reasons for this were worklife balance, promotion prospects and pension.
The job i am in now, having been promoted about 6 years ago, means that i have to work early mornings (often leaving home before 5am), late nights (often arriving home after 2am) and weekends, though as a + side, I can take this time during the week when most will be tied to their desk. There has now been a promotion ban for well over a year, and now the government are expecting me to not only make do with a wage freeze (or should i say wage cut with inflation starting to rise), but are now wanting me to pay an exxtra £52.50 per month, work an extra 7 years and get £44,000+ less of a pension (depending on how long I live).
This is not the contract I signed up for, and if the government or any employer wishes to ammend the terms and conditions of employment, then they MUST enter into real and open negotiations, not with pre-conditions.

From each by their means, to each by their needs.

So your striking because you have to put more into your pension to cover the cost of it.

And you have to work the same length of time as everyone else.

Can't blame you really.

 

[sweynforkbeard]

ever thought of stand up?

Rather this than another trip to Ikea for a sofa. God, the hellhole.

True. If you want to purhase a mere cup and saucer it involves a guided tour of every scrap of furniture ever made in Sweden, a trip in more lifts than a startrooper in one of the popular space films and a bewildering array of scissor lifs and fork-lifts to relieve the tedium.
Hellhole is a flattering description.

Then there's the meat balls.

 

[Bill]

Rather this than another trip to Ikea for a sofa. God, the hellhole.

True. If you want to purhase a mere cup and saucer it involves a guided tour of every scrap of furniture ever made in Sweden, a trip in more lifts than a startrooper in one of the popular space films and a bewildering array of scissor lifs and fork-lifts to relieve the tedium.
Hellhole is a flattering description.

meat balls, ed balls, i have no ikea what you are talking about.

Then there's the meat balls.

 

[bluevengence]

Never fails to amaze me when workers who have been shafted
with their pensions in the private sector and did fook all about it
now wish the same on fellow workers in the public sector

same old tories...divide and rule...and some of you fall for it every time

 

[Cheesy]

Never fails to amaze me when workers who have been shafted
with their pensions in the private sector and did fook all about it
now wish the same on fellow workers in the public sector

same old tories...divide and rule...and some of you fall for it every time

If you're on about me, I work in the public sector.

It never fails to amaze me that some workers in the public sector believe they should be immune from the cuts that have had to take place in the private sector!

 

[law74]

Why I will be voting in favour of Strike action and will be withdrawing my labour

About 12 years ago I took a drop of wages of over £150 per month to leave the private sector, working shifts in a factory, to enter the Civil Service.
The reasons for this were worklife balance, promotion prospects and pension.
The job i am in now, having been promoted about 6 years ago, means that i have to work early mornings (often leaving home before 5am), late nights (often arriving home after 2am) and weekends, though as a + side, I can take this time during the week when most will be tied to their desk. There has now been a promotion ban for well over a year, and now the government are expecting me to not only make do with a wage freeze (or should i say wage cut with inflation starting to rise), but are now wanting me to pay an exxtra £52.50 per month, work an extra 7 years and get £44,000+ less of a pension (depending on how long I live).
This is not the contract I signed up for, and if the government or any employer wishes to ammend the terms and conditions of employment, then they MUST enter into real and open negotiations, not with pre-conditions.

From each by their means, to each by their needs.

So your striking because you have to put more into your pension to cover the cost of it.

And you have to work the same length of time as everyone else.

Can't blame you really.

As I took a cut in wages to take up the job, and as the pension and promotion were two of the main reasons why i took a drop in earnings, then for the employer to be changing those terms i find an abuse of power.

 

[kronkonite]

wonder how public opinon is ?

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Let's not forget there was some weak and utterley inept management which only encouraged these tin pot marxist.British Leyland springs to mind

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Let's not forget there was some weak and utterley inept management which only encouraged these tin pot marxist.British Leyland springs to mind

any business leads from the top. if the directors and top management are useless what chance has the rest of the work force got of making the company successful.